alexjurkiewicz

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by alexjurkiewicz 9mo ago
Developer goodwill. And it probably cost a song.
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by alexjurkiewicz 9mo ago
The blog post says, many times, not to use Gastown. It makes fun of the tool's inconsistent branding and describes a lot of jankiness. This tool is dangerous, largely untested, and yet may be of interest if you are already doing simila
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by alexjurkiewicz 9mo ago
Simply combine this tool with `openssl enc` and your shell script is as secure as any shell script could be
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by alexjurkiewicz 9mo ago
(2024) My favourite part of these tools is the zany use of numbered file descriptors. `keypair` outputs the public key on fd 5 and secret key on fd 9. But signing reads the secret key on fd 8, while verification reads the public key on fd 4
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by alexjurkiewicz 10mo ago
I play several sports across several teams and leagues. Each league has their own system for delivering fixtures. Each team has its own system of communication. What I want is software that can glue these things together. Each week, announc
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by alexjurkiewicz 10mo ago
The article isn't talking talking about "industrial" in relation to user interfaces. It isn't talking about user interfaces at all. Your consumer/enterprise/industrial framework is orthogonal to the articles fo
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by alexjurkiewicz 10mo ago
The "industrialisation" concept is an analogy to emphasize how the costs of production are plummeting. Don't get hung up pointing out how one aspect of software doesn't match the analogy.
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by alexjurkiewicz 10mo ago
I think part of this is that Status Page updates require AWS engineers to post them. In the smaller Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) region, we've had several outages which didn't appear on the status page.
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by alexjurkiewicz 10mo ago
You are absolutely write! Let me write a Go program to implement this idea. The bloom filters will take approximately 5gb (for a 1% error rate) and take a few minutes to populate on a modern Macbook Pro. https://gist.github.com&#
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
ZeroTier supports relaying natively. You create a network with three nodes, the "client" (on the internet), the "gateway" (public subnet) and the "server" (private subnet). ZeroTier will automatically route tra
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
I mean, LLMs have the same sorts of problem with "Which poker hand is better: 7S8C or 2SJH" as "What is 77 + 19"?
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
It doesn't seem like the design of this experiment allows AIs to evolve novel strategy over time. I wonder if poker-as-text is similar to maths -- LLMs are unable to reason about the underlying reality.
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
S3 uses 5-of-9 erasure coding[1]. That's roughly 2x overhead. [1] https://bigdatastream.substack.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-...
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
It's hard to take this article seriously. We should write software for DOS because we won't need to maintain it post-release? Maybe software written in the age of DOS was relatively trivial compared to modern tools. Maybe there&#x
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
> So am I saying don’t use LLMs? No, I’m not. I’m saying it needs serious guardrails, documentation, oversight, usage data, research, and it should definitely be banned from schools. Because it’s doing serious damage to young people’s ab
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
Yes. It's a small DSL to fork a repository and apply a series of textfile transformations (replace file, replace partial file). But if you give this a cool name, it's a New Idea.
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
You can de/compress multiple streams in parallel, at minimal cost of overall efficiency. For gzip, look at pigz. For video, look at how x264/x265 slice up the video frame.
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
Right, this feels like an entry to Raymond Chen's "it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway"! I have nothing against Signal implementing screenshot hiding. But it's not exactly fixing a gaping
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by alexjurkiewicz 1y ago
I think code retention charts will look similar for any major library in any language. Projects accrete code. You could instead consider: * How many major version releases / rewrites happen in this language? (This might be a sign of ec
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by alexjurkiewicz 2y ago
There's nothing about ZeroTier's solution which deserves a higher price point than Tailscale. As a long-time user, ZT's administration UI is much worse and the product has been essentially unchanged for a decade. Better solut
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by alexjurkiewicz 2y ago
Copilot was the first mover, but other tools (built on worse models!) can do just as well. Until one product becomes clearly better, the code AI ecosystem might just churn and churn and churn.
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by alexjurkiewicz 2y ago
> The only point of the program is to print the output. A consistent structure helps humans parse the output. I have host(1)'s output order in my mental memory.
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
Context https://www.silverliningsinfo.com/automation/weaveworks-unra...
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
ProxySQL is a complex jet engine requiring manual tuning. 99% of MySQL users will be satisfied with the simple configuration and automatic query parsing of MySQL Router.
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
Corian isn't engineered stone under the Australian definition. It's explicitly mentioned as a safe(r) alternative.
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
Now they can sell advertising to businesses and guarantee improved CTR.
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
What prevents teams extending the expiry date repeatedly?
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
If you are reviewing implementation semantics after someone has already coded a feature, I'd say it's too late. You might catch issues, but the loss of goodwill and wasted productivity will make everyone hate code review. I think
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
If you remove some QR redundancy, you increase the average scan time for your code. A code that is slower to scan will get scanned less. Keep QRs boring!
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by alexjurkiewicz 3y ago
Restating the koan: The UNIX way values both simplicity of implementation and correct behaviour in all circumstances. These values are often in tension. You must not follow these values blindly. They apply only at the right time.

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